Top headlines from Vancouver and beyond for September 15 2011:

A 4.1 magnitude quake shook the Northwest coast of Vancouver Island around 4am this morning, the largest in a series of aftershocks following the 6.3 shaker in the same region, September 9.

Children’s book too hot for U.S. publishers warmly received in Canada is the most read story on the Globe’s B.C. portal today, spawning nearly 800 comments of Canadian self-congratulation and feigned outrage. Good reading.

Former NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner published a critical assessment of his former party’s September 12 attack ad, which mocked Vision Vancouver’s urban agriculture initiatives, such as wheat grass at City Hall and backyard chickens. “Politicians and candidates be warned: ridiculing urban farming is a no-win strategy,” Ladner wrote in his column for Business in Vancouver. “Food security is marching up the priority list in cities around the world, and Vancouver should be leading, not resisting, this movement.”

Wi-Fi is coming to Vancouver’s streets and parks, but it’s not going to be the free variety. Shaw Communications and Cisco are teaming up to cover Vancouver, and other western cities’ streets, with wireless internet by 2012.

And finally, the CBC has released an audio recording of police radio chatter as they arrested Randall Hopley.

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